Soundbites

Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:

"Midlife just isn't what it used to be."

--Elaine Wethington, associate professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology, describing the conclusions of a large study of adults that found no widespread evidence of "midlife crises," in The Washington Post, April 20.

"It's one-stop shopping for us. We used to send Chinese works one place, Renaissance works another and 19th-century works a third."

--Frank W. Robinson, director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, discussing restoration of items in the museum's collections by the Williamstown Art Conservation Center in Williamstown, Mass., in The New York Times, April 21.

"One-third of married women want to work less. But many of the 25 percent of married women who are not employed want to work more. They stay out of the labor force, however, because of the all-or-nothing nature of the workplace."

--Marin Clarkberg, professor of sociology, in a feature article on women in the workplace, in The Chicago Tribune, March 31.